Robert Peterson

Biography

The Author grew up in North Queensland in the wettest town in Australia, as oldest of three boys after his elder sister suspiciously drowned in the Babinda Creek. He achieved an Associate Degree in Agriculture at Gatton Campus of Queensland University. Began serious writing on retirement after joining a local writing club and Writing.com. Accomplished writing awards at school and local shows, wrote agricultural extension and research articles, monthly farm memos and local newspapers over 20 years and collection of sensitive security metadata on a diamond mine. Humour arose as positive energy-challenging dimples of 30plus surgical operations over his life. The Author’s written work is Australian fiction reworked from numerous assumed bush homicides garnered while imbibing over a bar, around a campfire or out fishing on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Author’s non-fiction life’s work competes as a Guinness Records tag for life’s stuff-ups, such as riding on a large crocodile, bitten by snakes, a giant eel, a stonefish, tiger sharks, gored and kicked by horses and cattle.
The Author presently lives in Seville Grove, Western Australia with his wife Glenys.

Books

Three space ships from Star 43 Bruno crash escorting the wickedest psychopaths given life sentences to a new world colony. The ships hurtle onto jungle hillsides of Mount Bartle Frere, North Queensland, and a Great Barrier Reef coral outcrop after criminals take over the ships. The surrounding farming community tourists interact over time with these aliens and suffer huge losses.

ANGUS SCOTSON migrates from a British Armed Forces past life to operate Happy Tours in the Northern Territory of Australia with ex-army Aboriginal TOMMY WONGAMUNJI to shoot/catch/photograph feral wildlife. Tourists, many with criminal intent, chance against retaliatory targets. Injuries and deaths persist.

Newly divorced orphan Daniel Mountain frequents the shifty side of a difficult street, then manages a seaside cattle enterprise and meets exciting Anika Seeboart. Hard work, long hours, mysterious murders and baby blues tear them apart, yet his Annie Sunshine comes to Daniel every night in his dreams. He vows to find her, wondering what really made her leave.

Migrating English, Irish, Rhodesians (now Zimbabwean) and Afghans surround Burke’s Billabong on the Flinders River in the Gulf of Carpentaria of Queensland, Australia back when the country came newly explored. Their different cultures, religions, love and greed play out in the maturing second generation far from civilisation. The original Australian native land owners starve and retaliate.

Texan Walker Faraday brings his wife and belligerent son to farm at Longreach, in Queensland. Opal miners, prospectors, indigenous folk, animals and birds turn up gruesomely dynamited, burned, poisoned, shot, buried and drowned suspiciously on their property. The process continues as each generation of Faradays falters.

Young orphaned Daniel shears sheep, droves cattle, then farms in partnership with his drover boss and an Aboriginal mate pre the Great War of 1939-1945 after an arson attack at Cloncurry in outback Queensland. He, wife Delia and children begin a new life on the east coast after losing partners and relatives to the harsh land conditions. Old enemies return to make the transition difficult.

Identical triplet boys, mirror image of neighbour cousin Chase, confuse most as their mature. Connor stands accused of viciously killing his brother Sean in mental asylum cell 17. The third triplet Cyril arrives home to hunt for Sean’s killer and finds his uncle Derek’s devoured remains. Extra marital affairs fetch more suspects into the mix to mystify further family murders, suicide and